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Master Chef winner 2011 Nadia Lim will talk about her outlook on what's on our table. She does not encourage diet fads - eating healthy has to be fun and enjoyable to last a lifetime! Find out her favourite food philosophies at the 'feeding our communities' conference on the 2nd of July in Parnell.

Feeding our communities will be the focus as Farmers’ Markets New Zealand celebrate over a decade of supplying local produce to communities from Invercargill to Bay of Islands. Parnell Farmers' Market in Auckland will provide the venue where a variety of topics including the current status of the Food Bill, 'Teaching our Children' and 'Community Gardens' will be the focus for two days of eating and drinking locally. The Taste Farmers' Markets 2012 Awards Dinner and presentation will open the conference on the Sunday evening as we announce the winners of the 2012 Awards and celebrate the real food producers of New Zealand who sell their products at Farmers' Markets nationwide.

Monday 2nd July 2012
8:30am – Tea & Coffee at Jubilee Building, Parnell
9.00 am - Housekeeping, Overview of the Conference
9:05am – Garden to Table Programme - Keynote speaker - how do we change the way children approach and think about food.
9.50 am – Food Bill Update - how will it affect you and your Market, what you did not know
10:30am – Morning tea
10.45 am Mind your Media –Key note Speaker - what tastes good today is good for us in the future
11:15am – Workshops – Finding the Local in Localvores, Managing the manager, 101 accounting in the cloud, Governance – how not to do it

12:15pm – Lunch

1:00 pm Say what you mean and mean what you say - your mission is simple if your thoughts are clear
2.00 pm – The Lyttelton effect – can a community feed itself ?
3.00 pm – Afternoon tea
3.15pm -- Workshops – Finding the Locals in Localvores, Managing the manager, 101 accounting in the cloud, Governance – how not to do it
4.15 pm – Masterchef - the best things about local food is the
4:45 pm – Farmers’ Markets Annual Gathering of Marketers (AGM)
5.30 pm – Close of day one and wine tasting

Tuesday 3rd July 2012

8:00am – Tea & Coffee at Jubilee Building, Parnell
8.15am – FMNZ Business Session –whose business Is it
9:00am – Reaching the full potential of the web - Marketground Website
10.00am – Social Media – Friends or foe – what you should and should not be doing - How to interact and gain the full spending potential of your Localvores

10:30am – Morning tea

10:45am --Authenticity is key to tomorrows Farmers’ Markets – Key Note Speaker - what is working now but will not work in the future
11.30am – Q&A from the floor

12:15 – Lunch

1.30 pm – FMNZ – Where to from here?
2.15 pm – Transitioning your market for the future - what is the next wave coming ashore
3:15 pm – Stall holder/committee/manager relationships – why does it work so well...or not
4.00pm - Key note Summary
4.15pm - Q&A from the floor